“The Art of Being Super” events at the Guilderland Public Library

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If you were at Shmaltz Brewing on Friday you may have seen flyers promoting “The Art of Being Super”: a series of comic-centric events happening throughout September at the Guilderland Public Library. The library is also promoting these events through their quarterly newsletter. If you’re not on the GPL’s mailing list, you can download a PDF of this newsletter here. Or you can check out the web version here. Or just click on the images below.

I actually had no idea these events were happening until I saw the flyer at the “King Kirby” party last week. It’s great that the GPL is getting several regional creators to come in for these events. I’m especially interested in the Greg Capullo Q&A, as he is an A-list comic book artist.

I actually interviewed Greg Capullo twice when I was in high school back in the early 1990s. He was signing Spawn comics at the (now closed) Electric City Comics shop in Rotterdam. I’ll bet the cassette tapes of those interviews are still in the basement or the attic of my parents’ house. I’ll have to look for them. If I can find my high school newspapers with those interviews, I’ll upload those as well.

Greg Capullo is originally from Schenectady and one of his first jobs as an artist was drawing flyers for Price Chopper, believe it or not. He told his whole origin story to Kevin Smith on two episode of “Fat Man on Batman” back in 2013. You can stream or download them here: Part 1. Part 2. He also did an episode with Scott Snyder here. (NSFW)

I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to attend all of these events, but I certainly will try. Anthony will be posting an interview with a representative of the Guilderland Public Library later this week.